{"id":65841,"date":"2016-05-18T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=65841"},"modified":"2016-05-17T17:25:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T21:25:45","slug":"court-dcs-good-reason-restriction-aint-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=65841","title":{"rendered":"Court: DC’s “good reason” restriction ain’t good enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon ruled that the District of Columbia’s “may issue” restriction that a citizen needs a “good reason” to apply for a permit to carry a concealed weapon in the district didn’t meet the Supreme Court’s intentions in Heller v. US, according to the Washington Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Heller, the Supreme Court\u2019s unequivocally [sic] asserted that \u2018the enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table,\u2019 \u201d Judge Leon wrote. \u201cThe District\u2019s understandable, but overly zealous, desire to restrict the right to carry in public a firearm for self-defense to the smallest number of law-abiding, responsible citizens is exactly the type of policy choice the Justices had in mind.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A screen shot from the opinion, called Pink Pistols v. DC – the whole thing is at the Washington Post<\/a>;<\/p>\n

\"Pink<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

Leon’s ruling is a preliminary injunction that prevents the District’s police chief from denying permits to folks who can’t prove a good enough reason to request a permit. Other states, like Maryland, face the same types of treatment in the courts. In Maryland, the state police require proof that an applicant is in imminent danger before they can apply for a permit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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